Ebook {Epub PDF} The Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning

The Jade Lily is the second novel by Australian author, Kirsty Manning. Alexandra Laird had rushed home from London to be with her grandparents in Melbourne. Opa was dying, and she needed to be with him in his last hours, and to be there for Oma/5(45).  · The change of setting isn't the only item that sets this historical book with a mystery apart. Australian author Kirsty Manning' has turned the genre of World War II fiction on its head with her book The Song of the Jade Lily which tells the little known story of Jewish refugees who settled in www.doorway.ru: HarperCollins Publishers. Kirsty Manning: The Song of the Jade Lily. Book Club Selections. (Fiction, p. ) Eleven-year old Romy and her parents flee Vienna to Shanghai, and in her granddaughter Alexandra rushes from England home to Melbourne, Australia, to be with her dying grandfather. This historical novel deals with friendship, motherhood, the price of love, and the power of hardship and Estimated Reading Time: 1 min.

Kirsty Manning makes a triumphant return to the Australian historical fiction scene with her second novel, The Jade Lily. It is a novel that takes the reader from the precarious times of World War II Austria, to the cosmopolitan streets of Shanghai, through to modern-day Melbourne. Kirsty Manning grew up in northern New South Wales. A country girl with wanderlust, her travels and studies have taken her through most of Europe, the east and west coasts of the United States and pockets of Asia. Kirsty's first novel was the enchanting The Midsummer Garden published in The Jade Lily, compelling and pacey, is her second book. The Song of the Jade Lily By Kirsty Manning ISBN www.doorway.ru Brought to you by OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: Kirsty Manning makes her US debut with this gripping historical nov.

The change of setting isn't the only item that sets this historical book with a mystery apart. Australian author Kirsty Manning' has turned the genre of World War II fiction on its head with her book The Song of the Jade Lily which tells the little known story of Jewish refugees who settled in China. The Song of the Jade Lily, Kirsty Manning (William Morrow, May ; Allen Unwin, April ) In The Song of the Jade Lily, Romy is a teenager when her family is torn apart during Kristallnacht, or the night of broken glass, in which Jewish stores in Germany and Austria were looted and destroyed. One of Romy’s brothers was killed by the Nazis and another taken to Dachau for hard labor. When Kirsty Manning stumbled upon a Star of David in the backstreets of Shanghai, she learned about the Jewish ghetto established in the city during WWII. Th.